Tag: Research
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Three Open Datasets on AI-Driven Disinformation: From LLM-Generated News to Expert Threat Assessments
How well can people actually detect AI-generated news? What strategies do large language models use to mimic journalistic writing? And what do domain experts think about the evolving threat landscape of generative AI disinformation? These are the questions driving a multi-year, mixed-methods research program on AI-driven disinformation. Today, I’m making three core datasets from this…
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Industrialized Deception: How LLMs Are Reshaping the Disinformation Landscape
Our paper “Industrialized Deception: The Collateral Effects of LLM-Generated Misinformation on Digital Ecosystems” has been accepted at ACM TheWebConf ’26 (WWW ’26) in Dubai. It examines how large language models are reshaping the disinformation landscape and what we can do about it. The Problem: Deception at Industrial Scale Generative AI has fundamentally changed how misinformation…
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JudgeGPT and RogueGPT Reach Version 1.0: Our News Perception Survey Is Open
Today we released version 1.0.0 of two open-source tools for our research on AI-generated news: JudgeGPT and RogueGPT. With this release, the JudgeGPT survey officially opens for data collection, and its data structure is now stable. Why two tools In our survey Blessing or Curse?, Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl, and I named the scarcity of…
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Was sind Fake News? – Lass dich nicht täuschen!
Fake News sind ein mächtiges Werkzeug, das dazu verwendet wird, die Öffentlichkeit zu täuschen, oft mit erheblichen Konsequenzen. Mit dem technologischen Fortschritt wächst die Fähigkeit, überzeugende, aber völlig falsche Informationen zu erstellen, was es zunehmend schwierig macht, Fakten von Fiktion zu unterscheiden. 🔗 Teste deine Fähigkeiten mit unserem Real or Fake-Quiz! Was sind Fake News?…
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How to Spot Fake News This Election: Test Your Detection Skills
Fake news is a powerful tool used to mislead the public, often with significant consequences. As technology advances, the ability to create convincing, yet entirely false, information has grown, making it increasingly challenging to distinguish fact from fiction. 🔗 Test your skills with our Real or Fake quiz! What is Fake News? Fake news refers…